Is streaming good for musicians".
Just last week I was shamelessly dancing around my kitchen with my friends as we streamed Taylor Swifts new album through spotify. Majority of her new hits where catchy and fun and we liked that we could throw in a few of her throwbacks aswell. We got to choose which songs from which albums played and that is why we use spotify. So upon receiving this assignment I of course choose to pick the article debating whether or not Taylor is setting a trend for fellow musicians in New York Times opinion section, "The debate simply put is exactly that! Is streaming good for musicians? This debate has been going on for years and years and many artists have protested their music being easily played for free but Taylor Swift is the first to remove all her music off of the main website, "Spotify". This article nicely protrays both sides of this disagreement by asking experts in the music industy who fall on both sides. The first expert, Suzzane Vega, whom is also a singer/songwriter and has first hand experience say, "Seems to me that we need to relearn that songs and albums have value, music is an art form, like any other". Suzzane simply puts into perspective that this is their living! They make money based off of how many albums are sold and if everyone is just streaming it for free it kind of defeats that. George Howard, a professor at the prestigous music school of berklee, agreees with Suzzane and Taylor swift, "If it takes a thousand streams of a song to make what the label grosses in one download album, then the decision to leave spotify is an obvious one." Howard goes on to talk about how Taylor both writes and sings her own songs, Home: this past week has probably been on of the most insane weeks of my life. I got a got a call on Monday morning, my friend says I just got us tickets for the Eagles game I'll pick you up at 5. Well I have work til 6 so this is a slight problem but nonetheless I am so excited! So Matt, Aaron, and Dylan and I pack in to my little yellow punch buggy (because of course when they said they said they would pick me up that meant they were getting drunk and I was driving) and we drove through the rush hour traffic into philly. On the way my ex-boyfriends mom calls, now this isn't completely crazy as we are still friends. She says how soon can you start a flexible job at my work? (She's a special Ed teacher at a prestigious institution btw). So I take a call from her boss and have my interview on the way to the game! She loves me! She wants to meet me! And I've gotten the job. We pull into the parking lot at the linc moments later. K lot of course, and we soon make friends with everyone around us! The night is amazing it's not too cold and our nose bleed seats seem pretty perfect in that moment. The Eagles win 45-21. We go to Lorenzo's and sit down with out favorite homeless man dan whose been sitting there for God knows how long and we visit weekly. He updates us on his life we give him pizza and then we realize it's 1:30 and head home. I drop Dylan off last. He says I have another surprise! He tells me to go home and pack for a trip we will be staying over. I go home tell my mom! She already knows. She helps me pack and sends me on my way. The boys let me sleep in the car, it's a two and a half hour drive! I wake up outside of a Marriott apparently my mom booked us a hotel! This is very uncharacteristic of her... The boys explain that we are going to the concert for valor so I can live my life long dream of seeing Bruce Springsteen!!!!! I think i almost fainted. This is long I'm sorry I should shorten it! But it was the most amazing night of my life! Scratch that 48 hours! When it's over I catch up on school work. As you can probably guess I'm very far behind. And I head to Gettysburg to pick up my best from and we head to penn state for the temple game and our friends fraternity formal. I don't think for the rest of my life I will ever be able to top this week! I am so grateful for everyone in my life and everything they do for me. School: W watched a video in class called food inc. It discussed how huge food corporations are changing the way our food is. WE now have to be concerned about the health and safety of ourselves and now also the animals that our food is coming from. They touched on the fact that the burger we are eating could be composed of thousands of different cows! That is repulsive. I actually have not eaten meat since actually. i dont know if im still scarred about the facts i learned or
in class rhetorical analysis
Im going to go ahead and start and compare Corbett to to cowboys fans. The entire video he talks about his past accopmplshments and doesn’t even touch on the future. Stop dwelling on the past. introduction: In this post I will be conducting a rhetorical analysis on the following two campaign videos. (Copy and paste videos). We watched these videos during class and worked as a class to come up with examples for each context, purpose, message, ethose, pathos, and logos. Pennsylvania has been voting democratic for the past few years consistently. Background on what democrats and republican parties. Republican : prolife, protecting guns, religion, wary of immigrants, money. Cut taxes on rich don’t really help the poor. Not much respect for women and miniorities. Democrats: tax the rich to fund social programs such as planned parenthood and welfare, main role of government is to protect its citizens, level planning field for everyone, pro choice, antiwar, gun control. Accused of not holding true to the American ideal and giving out handouts to the lazy, empty promises. Response Rhetorical analysis Research question Corbett Context: 2014 governors election. Republican He already holds office. Running for re election. Purpose: to persuade and inform. Message: Re elect me as governor. Kept my word Ethos: Man of the people. Kept his word. Logos : Relies more on logic and reason he is like a cowboys fan talking about the past and not about what they are going to do in the future. Pathos: republicans. Could say he is playing off of peoples fear. Republicans want a reduced government and they are scared the government will have too much power. Says reduced: 6 Says Save: 2 He is trying to appeal to the people by wearing casual clothes and showing a video of him talking to them and walking with them. He is trying to save his ass. Reduce flaw in welfare Saving tax payers money Reduce spending Don’t raise taxes I would not vote for him based on this short video because all he talked about was money and as I agree with him this is an important part and a problem he is just not relatable hes wealthy but this is not everything! There are so many more problems like climate control and education. Corbett underfunds schools! He has different priorities and he has most def proven that is true these past four years. Wolf Context: 2014 governors election. Democrat running for first time election. Purpose: to persuade and inform Message: Elect me as governor. Different fresh start! Ethos: His employees and family back him up. He refused his car and donated his salary. Donated 20%-30% of his business profits back into the company. MIT schooling. Jeep. Peace corps. Logos: His rhetorical choice was having his employees and family talking the most. Relies more on emotion Could argue this backfired because he didn’t show himself as a leader. Pathos: Blue collar worker. Plays on the emotion of hope. Everyday people back him maybe I should too. Relatable J Family orientated! He talks about hwat he does differently! He makes it seem like he actually cares by sacrificing his own salary and cars and all of the other perks. They are unnecessary for him! He makes it seem like he is more down to earth and includes his family talking about him which is cool. I would vote for him because he seems like someone who cares about the people and the state very much. Honeslty I had done some research into these two candidates before watching these clips so I could make an accurate vote that was true to what I believed and I stand behind tom wolf on most of his stances on major topics and controversies. tom wolf- reduce green house gas emission expand use of clean energy womens health care Increase income eligibility requirements for those accessing home and community-based care. A few weeks ago we had to read 6 Ways to be a Hemingway-Level Productive Badass. In the rest of the post I will be telling you about my six steps for how i edited my creative writing essay.
1) The first step I took to write my creative non fiction essay was to write down my ideas on a piece of paper i just let the ideas flow even if it didnt make sense. i would also keep my phone handy and when i was driving I would frequently take it out and write ideas down there aswell. 2) The second step I took was writing it all down on a word document and trying to structure it into an essay. At first the order of all of my paragraphs did not make much sense. But after moving everything around a few times I was golden. 3) The next step i took was having my friend look over it. Hes an amazing writer and brutally honest which is something I need. he pretty much told me I needed to re write the entire thing and could only keep two paragraphs. 4) In class we had the editing workshop! This came extremely handy! Being able to clearly label my essay seemed to make the process of which paragraph would go where and helped me realize that I still had so much work to do! Making us think about what themes we wanted to convey also made me think more into why I was writing this essay and made me keep thinking about it well after class adn the workshop ended. I also enjoyed the peer edit! It helped me get an idea for where my other classmates are at and what they are writing about. I am very shy about showing my work especially to strangers but he was great and gave good advice. 5)I then showed to work to my professor after class and got some advice on how long my intro was adn how i needed more showing and less telling. i totally agreed with this and went home and worked on adding in more senses to make it a little easier to picture. 6) finally I sat down and spent a long time going through all my notes and finishing up looking at the context and making sure it was something that somebody would want to read. Then i dove into the grammar. I feel like there is still some surface areas that i need to work out. What worked and didnt work?? - i feel like the most productive part of all of theses processes was the workshop in class. Now i just need to take those notes with me and do this for every essay i write in the future.
I ask myself this every day. "Why am I here"? half my friends go to ivy leagues the other half at big universities playing D1 sports, and me while I am hear at DCCC. I listened to them talk down on community college all of high school so i applied to all four year schools and suprisignly got into them all. I choose Ithaca it was the best school I got into and my boyfriend at the time wanted me to go there because it was right next to cornell where he would be attending. I went in as exploratory (a fancy way of saying undecided) and i coasted through for two years. I went out almost every night and was "friends" with everyone on campus, I was having the time of my life, who needed to study anyway. I knew I wanted to be a special ed teacher and I also knew that wasnt possible at Ithaca because it was not a major but yet i stayed. That summer I went to Africa to volunteer for a month. The whole time in the back of my mind i thought about ithaca and how there was no chance they would let me back the next semester, and my mom recieving that letter and having no way to get in contact with me for a month. Then i went into denial and stayed that way. My mom gave me a week at home to catch up with my friends and family and relive my experiences over and over until that dreadful day came. We both cried, I cried mostly because she was disappointed and you never want to see your mother cried but I had a month to accept this. I spent the rest of the summer in denial told minimal people. One day I got an offer as an assistant teacher for a special ed teacher and it just kind of hit me like wow i need to go back to school and get a degreee, the experience is great but its nothing without a degree. I put off everything in my life I always have I have two 500$ checks that have been sitting in my car since summer that I have yet to deposit... Like why? This class has actually inspired me I have never been on top oh my school work or been eager to write and want to succeed I've been researching for the next step heavily and getting my life on track I have even been bailing on party's and bar nights to do homework which is unheard of in my life. I finally feel like I'm doing it for me! This is my life this is what I want to be doing it and I'm not doing it because my asshole of an ex boyfriend tells me he will dump me unless I get straight As in a four year college that happens to be conviently right next to his school or because my controlling mother says I will be cut off from my trust fund if I drop out. I have found my truth and it's not the same as everyone made it out to be.
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In class this week we read lots of great examples of showing not telling to help us with our memoirs. I think this helped put it into perspective a little bit better for me. I want to try and use themes in my essay but am struggling with that also i really like the idea of juxta position so last night i went in and spend thirty minutes trying to find a good place for it and even though its small i think i got it. I really loved the book the glass castle so i actually went to barnes and noble and bought it again to read and now im on a reading kick again. I get in these phases where i read like six books in a week and a half. Anyway back on topic, I also need to work on making my I's capital on here because it does not do it automatically which is hard. HOME: I went to go visit my friends at my old school this weekend. It was the perfect fall weather that I remembered and their new house has a forrest in the back that we hiked through. The leaves have already completely changed color in upstate new york and it was gorgeous. or like we all say up there "Ithaca is gorges" We went to apple fest which is a huge festival where they sell everything apple you can imagine! Its amazing!!! then we went to go see gone girl at the movies which i actually really did not enjoy at all. It seemed dragged out but all my friends loved it. On the way home from the movies I got pulled over going 66 in a 40... So now I have to go back for court. But hey there is always a silver lining I get to see my friends again!! Going out that night was so much fun I got to catch up with everyone and missed, but also i realized why I am not there anymore. Its hard because I miss my friends so much but leaving was a great choice I am not responsible when I am there and i needed to focus alot more on school. The next morning we went to the famous farmers market and ate cambodian food on the dock over looking lake cayuga. It was a perfect weekend and it is so great to know that even though I am not there my friends and I will be close forever. I guess i should update on my sister aswell. I went to the grave for the first time in way too long adn my first time along. I texted her a picture of this creepy figurine someone left which happens pretty frequently and she called me and we laughed about how it was probably our cousin harmony. I laid down next to the tombstone and talked with kristen for about an hour, not necessarily all about dad but just life and it was kind of nice to have her there with me in a sense. Then some guy came and yelled at me because they were closed... oops. HIGHLIGHTER PARTY: My ex boyfriend is a frat president, I used to be at the school next to him and would help plan and throw these parties. Even though I am home now he asked for me to help which was kind of more fun :) JOB: I started my new job! Everyone is being very supportive and I am loving it! FAMILY: I have been blogging alot about my sister lately and our developing relationship so i thought I would add a section on this. with a few examples.
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